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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1887
Page
7
The report details mixed oats, oats, corn, flour, and rye prices with daily closing, high and low estimates across Chicago and New York. It lists butter and cheese market steadiness, eggs and poultry demand, and varied farm product quotations including potatoes, hay, seeds, and tallow.
The pork market shows no change with quiet trading. Lard and chains stay firm. Fresh beef demand fair and prices edging upward. Veal plentiful with fair demand. Lambs steady, mutton unchanged. Chicago closing quotations show varied pork and lard futures with mixed daily highs and lows, plus prices for long cuts, short cuts, backs, and various pork products.
The report lists fresh meats including beef and pork products with varied prices for plate, hams, tongues, and roasts. It details fresh meats such as choice steers, heavy lambs, and mutton with per-pound quotes. Fruit and nut items show firm apples, Florida and foreign oranges, lemons, and pistachio-like goods with box prices and evaporated and dried varieties.
Liverpool futures closed weaker with April at 6 37 64d and May at 5 37 64d, while various month pairs range around 5 40 64d to 6 36 64d. Spot Upland middling bids at 558 5 11 16d PtB, 12000 bales sold, receipts 16000. New York spot quiet at 105 6 1 6¢, low middling 10 1 2¢, good ordinary 9 84 ¾¢, ordinary 7 5 ¾¢. Raw sugar firm with refined prices stable. multiple grades listed. Molasses steady with Cuban and Puerto Rico quotes given.
The week ending April 6 1887 shows cattle numbers at 617, sheep 8180, hogs 12185 with last week lower cattle and higher sheep. Arrivals at Watertown total 2580 sheep 1054 veals but buyers limited by daily notices. Prices range from 5 to 6 for beef quality, store cattle including oxen calves and milch cows vary widely. Western stock and exports to Liverpool noted with several ships carrying cattle and dressed beef. Sheep and veal markets steady with veal calf prices down about a quarter to a third.
cattle commissioners' moves and quarantine fears slow cattle movement. Maine stock holds firm as Libby plans talks with officers to move cattle, noting no disease in the state. Reports show 1104 milch cows and springers on offer, prices down, with veal and calf lots sold across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and New York markets. Union Market and Brighton yards display varied cattle sales, with several steers heifers and cows traded, plus horse trade highlights at regional stables.
New York markets report flour receipts and exports with dull sales, plus wide price ranges for wheat mixed with spring and red varieties. Chicago notes firmer corn and varied wheat, Detroit and Milwaukee show steady to firmer trends, and other cities report mixed movement in oats, barley, pork, and lard.
OCR fragment lists April exports from Arecibo Porto Rico and Smyrna Turkey to Liverpool and Barbadoes. Items include sugar bales, molasses, refined petroleum, leather goods, staves, butter, cattle, palm oil, cotton, flour, bacon, lard, beef, hams, crackers, beer, tobacco, oysters, and various containers with quantities and containers. Names of places and ships appear, with multiple totals across destinations.
Minnesota at 55 68c. Whiskey steady at 3113. Provisions firmer, small lots sold, mess 14 75, ir regular, new at 17. Laid nominally at 7 10. Dry salt meats shoulders 5 75 2600, long clear 7 87 42 805, clear ribs 8 10a 81214, short clear 8 15 820. Bacon shoulders 6 37 34 650, long clear at 8 GO, clear ribs 5 62 44 8 70, short clear 8 75 885. Hams at 16 0 14 50. Receipts flour 6000 bbls, wheat 22 000 bush, corn 160 000 bush, oats 20 000 bush, rye 1 000 bush, barley 16 000 bush. Shipments flour 12 000 bbls, wheat 86 000 bush, corn 143 000 bush, oats 28 000 bush.
April market summaries show hogs steady with price ranges across cities. Kansas City receipts at 7559 yesterday and shipments 2063. Chicago reports dull to lower cattle with steers around 380 to 520 and stockers to 430, while hogs show receipts near 10,000 with strong, mixed trades and packing prices from 490 to 590. Sheep noted firmer with natives around 85 to 105 and Texans to 25.
Net receipts across Augusta to Louisville reflect mixed results with sizable exports to Britain France and the continent. Totals include five day consolidated figures of 21 492 receipts and stock across all US ports at 514 147 while coastwise exports to Great Britain reach 26 683 and shipments to the continent 13 662.
Cargoes off the coast show light receipts as buyers hold off for concessions. Wheat and corn markets vary across Liverpool and Mark Lane with mixed demand and prices firming in places while English country markets ease. Wool sales near Easter recess open with Turkish letters and French buyers active.
Trade listing shows schooners and brigs loading and unloading goods in Surinam Mayaguez Lunenburg St Simons Iloilo Hyeres Ponce Buenos Ayres and Palermo. Items include sugar molasses hides lumber salt pewter and citrus shipments by Whit ney Pousland & Co and other firms with vessel names such as George K Hatch Conductor Ocean Friend Landseer Hattie M Bain and Adam W Spies.
A classified line describes stoneware and wire ware with 11 boxes, 2 additional boxes of ware, 25 dozen wooden ware, and straw brooms. The listing specifies quantities and types of goods for sale or auction in a local notices column.
Detailed receipts from multiple railroads show extensive consignments: Boston & Albany with cotton and wool, flour, corn, oats, bran, lard, beef, ham, butter, cheese, coffee, eggs, apples, potatoes, hay, lumber, leather. Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine, Boston & Lowell, and Boston & Maine divisions all listed varying quantities of commodities including bales, barrels, sacks, and cases. The document outlines daily freight tallies for cotton, wool, cornmeal, flour, oats, bran, meal, oils, bacon, cheese, eggs, leather, hides, fur, and more, across many rail lines.
Local and through train times from Boston Causeway Street with connections to Tilton Laconia White River Junction Montreal and beyond. Includes Manchester Concord Nashua Woburn Lowell and many branches with varied daily departures and parlor sleeping car details. Time table available at stations through General Superintendent Mell en and Assistant General Passenger Agent Storer.
Central Massachusetts R R Station at Causeway Street publishes a February 1887 timetable. Trains depart Boston for Jefferson and Way Stations with multiple daily runs including express and Sunday schedules. General passengers agents GEO W Storer and C S Mellen oversee the changes.
A dense OCR of Western Division train timetables lists departures from Boston and stations including Danvers Medford Lowell Newburyport and Dover. It shows numerous times to Alton Bay Rochester Farmington and other points with Sunday and weekday patterns and varied arrival and departure slots.
A dense list of commuter and regional train times for Amesbury Beverly Chelea Dover Everett Great Falls and many towns including Lynn Marblehead Middleton Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Revere Salem Saugus Branch and Swampscott with notes on branches workingmen's trains and city ticket offices. The document names James T. Furbur and D J Flanders as general managers and agents with references to Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains and service on Thurs and Sat only.
Complex timetable lists Weekday trains from Boston to New York via Fall River Line with multiple stops including Ashmont Braintree and Cohasset, plus returns. Various times across morning to night, with additional notes on service by Wednesdays and Fridays and general Senate J. Kendrick as General Se...
Mon Feb 28 87 trains run Boston to New York and return with Shore Line Fast Express at 10.00 am, Shore Line Mail at 11.00 am, and Steamboat Line service. Complex schedules list departures and returns for numerous points including Providence, Attleboro, North Aboro, East Foxboro, Sharon, Dedham, Stoughton, and Mansfield with specific timing and late adjustments. A. A. Folsom, Sup t.
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